I am from the U.S. and I don't live in the UK, I am used to hearing a lot of wild things at a lot of web sites. In the USA we learn to filter what we read and try to distill reality from the many fictions that we can read everyday.
I too quit posting there, after posting something to the effect that some Amiga folks out there can't see reality of the market vs some fictional account of how they want it to be. One of the board operators there felt I was making a personal attack, even though I didn't name any poster by name and it was just a general comment.
So I felt that this didn't match my freedom of speech so I took it to the main operator of the board. He told me that this definitely wasn't a place of free speech and I had to either go along with what they were saying or I would be removed. I have worked as a board operator for several major companies in the past in the USA and I am not a newbie poster, nor would I make a flame comment directed at someone specifically.
Rather than argue the freedom of speech thing, or reveal who told me to "shutup" because that TOO violates their Terms of Service, I decided never to post on that board again. It's very obvious that they don't like conflict or any negative publicity relating to new Amiga products and honestly the policy seems like one of a company that is using the site as a publicity mechanism rather than an independent free focal point of community.
I am over that whole mess over there and will no longer post. It's interesting for me to see other people having the same problems with what we'd call censorship. My friend who is a law student here at the University of Michigan who is from the UK tells me that censorship and telling you what you can and can't say isn't welcome in that country either.
Of course what do I know I am just the UGLY American, and remember my country invented the Amiga in the first place. With friends like this, the Amiga platform certainly doesn't need enemies and it's turned me off of buying an A1 and OS 4.
